hi i was brought up in walker i lived on scrogg rd my dad lived on scroggrd too with his family and worked in the walker ship yard then swan hunters he drank in the scrogg inn and the westboune club for years my mothers side they lived on hexham av the back garden backed right up to the grave yard wall them days but later on took the land and turned into allotments i never liked sleeping in the back bedroom because it faced the grave yard and were strange shadows at certain times of the day .from the 70's onwards the whole place has changed more so the tyne from a river that looked like chocolate and smelled bad to the 80's where the tyne started to show it was not a dead river anymore so at that point i was about 17 and started fishing the tyne with some fairly good catches cod whitting eels flounders and healthy salmon jumping and swimming up the tyne
hi i was brought up in walker i lived on scrogg rd my dad lived on scroggrd too with his family and worked in the walker ship yard then swan hunters he drank in the scrogg inn and the westboune club for years my mothers side they lived on hexham av the back garden backed right up to the grave yard wall them days but later on took the land and turned into allotments i never liked sleeping in the back bedroom because it faced the grave yard and were strange shadows at certain times of the day .from the 70's onwards the whole place has changed more so the tyne from a river that looked like chocolate and smelled bad to the 80's where the tyne started to show it was not a dead river anymore so at that point i was about 17 and started fishing the tyne with some fairly good catches cod whitting eels flounders and healthy salmon jumping and swimming up the tyne
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